ABSTRACT
John Block Friedman, The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought. This point of view was echoed in 1996 in David Williams' highly regarded Deformed Discourse. The manuscript evidence, while it does not help identify an author, does indicate that the Cosmography was read in Bavaria. Given Thus the discussion of the cultivation of spelt on the Gadarontas islands is, at least, appropriate for the islands of the Baltic region. Having described the city of Sigtuna, he explains that to the east of it lay the Riphaean mountain. In this respect what these three authors have to say about the cynocephali seems comparable to what we have observed about the information on the Baltic regions to be found in Aethicus Ister. The monstrous could be close at hand, and the varying location of such hybrid people as the cynocephali is a matter of some significance.
